Sea-level Rise Around North America Upon Collapse Of Antarctic Ice Sheet To Be Higher Than Expected

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 23:35 in Earth & Climate

Geophysicists have shown that should the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse and melt in a warming world -- as many scientists are concerned it will -- it is the coastlines of North America and of nations in the southern Indian Ocean that will face the greatest threats from rising sea levels.

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